Friends, students, Ramdiculous Goons of the world...hear me now.
I attended an at-risk session on August 29th. The guest speaker was a gentleman named Rick Barnes, and he covered the various topics of acceptable behavior and organizational leadership, and the ways that collegiate organizations could be held liable and accountable for destructive incidents. (And he peppered it with humor, making his speech pretty darn effective. But I digress.)
Ramdiculous, as a student organization, participates in and holds various events, where we celebrate our staff, our awesome newspaper, and our awesomeness in general. However, as president of Ramdiculous, I find myself in the position of telling you that Ramdiculous could be held liable by any breach of common sense (i.e. drinking to excess with destructiveness as a result, harming an individual or individuals, assult, destruction of property, et cetera).
For example, Barnes provided a story about two organizational members who drank to excess at a organizational party, then drunk-drove and had an accident resulting in bodily harm to an older couple. The organization was sued, the organization's top officers were sued, and the organization's voting members were sued. The only two members who were NOT sued were the two that voted "No" to holding the party. The rest of the club faces multi-million dollar payouts to the estate of the injured couple.
So if you do something bad in the official name of the organization (i.e. you acted like a normal rational person wouldn't and something monumentally BAD came of it), then you will be summarily dismissed from our ranks. Chairman Seth, myself, and the organization could also be held accountable, and we don't want that to happen. Ramdiculous means too much to us to have its name tarnished.
FYI, dear Goons.
Thank you, and good night from SA.
